mélopée
\me.lɔ.pe\
The verdict
“mélopée” is uncommon French (frequency #87,869 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,869
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composition du chant, on ne l’emploie qu’en parlant de la musique antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melopee · mélopée · French
mélopée · rank #87,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,869
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH môssieur
Nearest frequency peer: môssieur (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mélopée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mutantes
mutantes
12,136 corpus weight
- médaillées
médaillées
12,135 corpus weight
- médiale
médiale
12,134 corpus weight
- mélopée
mélopée
12,132 corpus weight
- môssieur
môssieur
12,131 corpus weight
- Naboo
Naboo
12,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélopée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélopée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.lɔ.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélopée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélopée is uncommon French at frequency #87,869 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.lɔ.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mélopée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mélopée, spelled M-É-L-O-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Composition du chant, on ne l’emploie qu’en parlant de la musique antique.
- 2Déclamation chantée ; chant récitatif ; chant monotone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélopée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’accompagnant de son gimbri, il nous chante, d'une voix tantôt gutturale, tantôt nasillarde, d’interminables mélopées, que l’assistance reprend aux refrains avec des battements rythmiques des mains.
Brusquement, le grondement sonore des tambourins, vient couvrir toutes les voix. Les chanteuses, d’une voix chevrotante, entonnent une étrange mélopée : « Nous célébrons une fête pour nos seigneurs les esprits. »
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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